For thousands of years, people have collected oysters for their pearls, no matter their color. Have you ever wondered where ...

Australia's farmed abalone are fed formulated, pelleted diets which tend to produce greenlip abalone with a slightly different appearance to wild caught abalone. The benefits to the color of shell ...

Why is abalone shell iridescent? ... giving rise to a rich array of colors. You may recognize it as mother of pearl, but it's just one of several shells that boast this iridescent display.

They’re named after the colors of their shells, flesh or tentacles. Black abalone. ... who was counting the shells she had collected from all the abalone that didn’t make it.

Abalone raised in Canadian shellfish farms feed on plants that leave their shells an odd color, ... Today only 2 percent are. Average abalone shell sizes have grown larger. “We thought, ...

While Mahoney often uses the brighter-hued abalone shells from New Zealand, ... "It's really the colors of the peninsula." 6. Asian angle: Point Lobos State Natural Reserve.

These colors occur naturally in the medium in which Leah Mata, a Northern Chumash artist, works: the shells of the red abalone, or Haliotis rufescens.

WHITE ABALONE } Haliotis sorenseni FAMILY: Haliotidae. DESCRIPTION: White abalone are ocean-dwelling mollusks with a thin, oval shell that is red or brown on the outside and a variety of iridescent ...

These colors occur naturally in the medium in which Leah Mata, a Northern Chumash artist, works: the shells of the red abalone, or Haliotis rufescens.